P WOMEN AS TBAVELHSS.
TWO GIRLS WHO WENT ALONE FROM
) PARIS TO SAN FRANCISCO."
Xfeoy Made tb Trip In Just Twelve and
0e-Hlf Days They Were Sick While
CYoasIng; the Water, bat They Received
! Beet of Attention from K very bod .
American girla have that pluck which
makes them admired by all the world.
The following is a story of two young
women who made a flying trip from
Paris to San Francisco. The sisters were
at school in Paris, and expected soon to
be met by relatives. One forenoon they
received a cable dispatch telling them to
come home as soon as possible. The
oldest girl is about twenty years old.
She immediately sent for time tables.
'While she was examining these her sister
-was packing five trunks.
Hiss F discovered that they could
get a steamer from Southampton which
-was to sail the next day. She posted to
her banker's, and hurrying back joined
her sister in packing. At half-past 8
that night they were being whirled out
of Paris. Neither of the girls slept that
night. When they arrived in London at
8 o'clock in the morning Miss F : was
forced to do some shopping, for however
rapidly women travel they make time to
do a little buying, and in this case they
had started so suddenly that this was
absolutely necessary.
The American sisters caught the 12:30
o'clock train for Southampton, not hav
ing had time to eat luncheon. Four
hours later they were on1 their steamer,
tired and hungry and sleepy, but tri
umphant. ON THE OCEAN. '
Every one on the vessel was most kind
to the young women and lauded their
pluck to the skies. The voyage would
for this reason have been made pleasant
for them, bnt their hurry and lack of
sleep, together with their nerve tension,
made them easy prey for man's mortal
enemy, seasickness. From the time the
big steamer left England until she swept
up New York harbor the weather was
uncompromisingly rough. Not one day
was fair. When the young women
reached the steamer they were utterly
exhausted, and at once went to bed.
This set the stewardess to grumbling.
She wanted the girls to appear at the
dinner table on the first day at least.
"Oh, don't urge us to go to dinner
again," cried Miss F wearily, and
then she told the woman the experience
through which they had just passed.
"You poor little dears," said the
woman, at once becoming gentle, and
for the rest of the voyage slie neglected
every one else to look after "the brave
little American ladies."
Men and women joined in little court
esies and attentions to the two girls.
One old crusty Englishman seemed to
take offense if any one monopolized their
attention. He became their loyal guard
ian and walked around iike a great pro
tecting mastiff. It was he who stood on
the deck with them on the day that the
girls turned their eager eyes toward the
Statue of Liberty. The new friends of
"the brave little American ladies" ad
vised them to stay in New York for one
day to get a little rest. . They would not
listen to such pleasant urgings. The
stewardess actually wept over their de
termination to hurry on to San Francisco.
NO REST FOB THEM.
"Only - get one night's sleep," she
pleaded, but the girls had been told to
come home as soon as possible, and they
were deaf to all entreaties.
The steamer was at her pier at 4:30
p. m., and a train left Jersey City at
3:30 p. m. In that two hours the girls
left the steamer, had their trunks ex
amined by the custom house officials
and were driven to the railroad station.
Their adoring old Englishman, who did
not look as if he had moved rapidly in
forty years, fretted and bustled around
the trunks when they were being
opened. He was in mortal terror lest
the girls would miss the train after all.
He stamped, got red in the face, puffed
violently and finally recovered the bag
gage with a cry of exultation. The
train which started westward that even
ing carried with two white faced young
women the good wishes of a shipload of
passengers.
"No woman but an American would
undertake such a thing," said the Eng
lishman, looking at two bits of of white
lace where two handkerchiefs fluttered
at the car window as the train rolled out
of the station, "and," he added,' "no
woman but an American could succeed
in such an undertaking."
For the benefit of those who are inter
ested to know how the trip ended, and
to satisfy those who like to follow trans
atlantic records, it may be said that the
young women reached home in safety.
To go from London to their home in
San Francisco took them just twelve
and one-half days. New York Tribune.
A Successful Counterfeit.
Our rations while in Richmond we es
timated at two to four ounces of beef
and six to eight ounces of good wheat
bread. To supplement this we made
counterfeit greenbacks, which we were
sometimes able to pass on unsuspecting
guards. Once, by cutting out the figures
from a ten cent scrip and with a little
blood gluing this over the figure one in
dollar greenback, myself and three
comrades bought with this bogus ten
dollar bill ninety loaves of good bread,
and it was the only time while I was in
the Confederacy that I made a full meal.
Century.
Posted.
Jenkins (trying to be social) Is this
Fanner Jones?
Farmer Smith No, sir-ee, it ain't
Farmer Jones; it's Farmer Smith." An'
TH just tell yer, young feller, that I'm
posted on that banco game, an yer cant
play it on met So you an' yer friend
, yander 'd better git. Harper's Bazar.
It Always Seems So.
Merritt I wonder what mazes your
grandmother like to rock bo much.
Little-Johnnie 'Cause the chair creaks
mo. Epoch.
A Monster Aerolite.
In May, 1883, the Nations museum of
Brazil came, into final possession of one
of the largjaet meteorites- or aerolites
that was- ever known to fall upon either
section of the American oon&nenta. The
noble specimen weighs 11.800 pounds
and originally laid imbedded in the
ground near Bendego creek, in one of
the most inaccessible portions of Brazil.
The cost of transporting it from the
place where it first struck American soil
was defrayed by Baron Greahy. The
survey of the route and preliminary ar
rangements occupied three months; its
journey to the capital commenced - Nov.
25, 1887, and it was nearly five
months later before it was finally landed
at the little railroad depot in the wilder
ness from whence it was transported to
Bio Janeiro.
During the four months in which it
was being pulled, pushed and rolled by
man and mule power through the track
less forests, over steep mountains and
sandy wastes, it crossed over one hun
dred streams of all sizes, was taken
over one mountain chain 8,700 feet in
height, besides many smaller elevations.
All of this in a region where the best
roads are only mule paths. A better
idea of the difficulties these scientists
encountered in securing their prize may
be had from a knowledge of the fact
that a total of 172 days was consumed
in moving it from Bendego creek to the
railway station, a distance of only 711
miles. The pluck and energy exhibited
by these gentlemen in moving this gi
gantic airstone to their national museum
is a curious commentary on the scientific
ideas of the early part of the century,
which denied the existence of such bod
ies as aerolites. St. Louis Republic.
Disappoin ted.
In a Massachusetts town live a worthy
couple who have so far obeyed the Script
ural injunction to increase and multiply
that they have eight sons, of whom the
oldest is not over a"dozen years of age.
They are bright and lively little folk,
and play together with the greatest zest,
only now and then falling into some dis
agreement when one or the other pair of
twins does not approve of the general
scheme of play.
It chanced not long since that to this
interesting family there came a still fur
ther addition in the shape of a baby sis
ter. The father and mother were de
lighted that there should be a girl in the
family, and supposed that the sons would
be equally pleased. It was accordingly
with a smiling face that the father went
to make the announcement to the little
fellows, who at the moment were all to
gether in the breakfast room.
'Boys," he said joyously, "you have a
darling little baby sister."
There was a look of blank disappoint
ment on every face and a moment of
profound silence. Then excitable 8-year-old
Master Tommy spoke for them all
by exclaiming explosively:
"Oh. dear, dear! that is too bad; it
just spoils our baseball niner Youth's
Companion.
King; Alfonso's Democratic Ways.
Whenever the king sees a grandee or
gentleman whom he knows he calls them
by their Christian names, or their sur
names without their title, a custom al
ways reproved by his governess. "Eh!
Xiquena!" exclaimed the king one day,
as the ex-minister passed. The govern
ess, who knew that the count's father
was dead, and that the son had inherit
ed the title, observed, "Sire, permit me
to remind your majesty that the person
whom you do the honor to address is the
Duke of Bivona." The king burst oni
laughing and exclaimed: "The Duke of
Bivona! Thia is nice! But I know that
it is Xiquena! Are you not Xiquena?" he
added, addressing the count. "Yes,
sire." "Dd you see," the little king went
on; "this woman has a mania for giving
people new names. Doesn't she pretend
that, Juanito" (an officer of the royal
guard much loved by the king) "is the
Marquis of Soto Mayor?" "Indeed; sire,
he is; . and you will permit me to remind
your majesty that he should be so ad
J res8ed," replied the governess. ' Don't
be stupid," was the monarch's answer:
"this is Junanito, and the other is
Xiquena." Corriere de Napole.
Diseases of Childhood.
Perhaps the most important physio
logical period in childhood is when the
first set of teeth is erupting. Dr. At.
buthnot has calculated that one child in
ten has its life destroyed in consequence
of diseases which have their origin at
this time. Professor Camper states that
out of 5,989 infants admitted to found
ling hospitals only 884 were alive at the
end of the fifth year. Thus it is evident
that children should be carefully cared
for, and I believe that besides those who
die from diseases readily traceable to ir
ritation during the eruption of the tem
porary teeth a number are the victims
of diseases superinduced by general neg
lect of the mouth, and the consequent
tooth decay and improper mastication of
food. Cor. New York Herald.
Gsre Himself Away.
Uncle Si Well, Maurice, you're a
reglar hunter, ain't yer? brought up all
your togs, too. What do yon expect to
shoot?
Maurice Oh, I thought I'd try the
quail this morning.
Uncle Si You can't do notion' with
out a dog.
Maurice By Gawge. that's so. Er
er can't I take Fido? Puck.
the ro less Dangerous.
A machine for automatically blowing
a fog whistle has just been patented. A
vessel equipped with the machine may
travel at any rate of speed and continue
to blow one or three blasts of the whistle
per minute while proceeding through a
fog. Many steamers use it on the lakes,
for instance. New York Journal. -
Mole, Bmon Xtence. '
To remove moles get five cents worth
of muriatic acid, and three times a day
touch the mole with a toothpick dipped
into the add. It will come off in about
a week leaving a red spot on the face.
Let that spot alone and it will heal.
New York Journal.
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